Margaret Mahy Quotes

Quotes about:

• Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.

  Margaret Mahy

  Fashion, Book, Community

  50 Copy quote

• Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

  Margaret Mahy

  Writing, Way

  29 Copy quote

• People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.

  Margaret Mahy

  People, Dishes, Truth And Love

  Margaret Mahy (2002). “The Catalogue of the Universe”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

  19 Copy quote

• It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.

  Margaret Mahy

  6 Copy quote

• Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.

  Margaret Mahy

  Writing, Ideas, People

  5 Copy quote

• If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

  Margaret Mahy

  Jobs, Work, Best Effort

  7 Copy quote

• Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.

  Margaret Mahy

  Reading, Writing, Creative

  Interview with Elissa Gershowitz, www.hbook.com. November 1, 2009.

  5 Copy quote

• New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.

  Margaret Mahy

  Country, Writing, Sometimes

  9 Copy quote

• In a way, the characters often do take over.

  Margaret Mahy

  Character, Way

  4 Copy quote

• At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.

  Margaret Mahy

  Book, Thinking, Two

  11 Copy quote

• When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.

  Margaret Mahy

  Reading, Ideas, Done

  8 Copy quote

• Will you still love me when I'm a monster?

  Margaret Mahy

  Love, Monsters, Stills

  Margaret Mahy (2007). “Maddigan's Fantasia”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

• I don't want to die, really. I'm interested in what happens next, so I've got to keep on.

  Margaret Mahy

  Want, Next, Happens

  9 Copy quote

• Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.

  Margaret Mahy

  Funny, Children, Writing

  5 Copy quote

• I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.

  Margaret Mahy

  Children, Writing, Thinking

  5 Copy quote

• By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.

  Margaret Mahy

  Taken, Ordinary, Lifetime

  8 Copy quote

• I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

  Margaret Mahy

  Children, Writing, Long

  5 Copy quote

• I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

  Margaret Mahy

  Attitude, Believe, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.

  Margaret Mahy

  Book, Ideas, Example

  7 Copy quote

• There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?

  Margaret Mahy

  Two, People, Suffering

  5 Copy quote

• I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.

  Margaret Mahy

  Thinking, Games, Ideas

  5 Copy quote

• I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk.

  Margaret Mahy

  Years, Office, Bed

  8 Copy quote

• Do you think that clothes have a life of their own, and maybe have unsuitable affairs with opposite styles? I mean - you look at some people - their clothes go on flirting long after the people inside them have lost interest.

  Margaret Mahy

  Mean, Thinking, Flirting

  5 Copy quote

• I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.

  Margaret Mahy

  Fighting, People, Fighter

  8 Copy quote

• Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

  Margaret Mahy

  Reading, Writing, Different

  8 Copy quote

Page 1 of 2

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin